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12/28/96-- Papua New Guinea's Log Exports Rise Again
12/26/96-- Brazil's Indigenous Land Grab
12/25/96-- Locally Motivated Guatemalan Biodiversity Reserve Threatened
12/23/96-- Indonesia's Timber Industry: Rape of the Rainforest
12/14/96-- U.S. Salvage Logging Program Ends Early
12/9/96-- Plan to Protect Bolivian Rainforests and Offset Greenhouse Gases
12/8/96-- Papua New Guinea Rainforest Campaign Update
12/7/96-- Maya Indians to Washington in Bid to Defend Their Rainforests
12/5/96-- Victory for Macuxi People in Brazil Within Reach
12/4/96-- Foreign Forest Pests Threaten America's Already Dwindling Forests
12/3/96-- Why I Was Banned from a Congo Rain Forest
12/3/96-- Venezuela Unveils Mega-Project to Channel Rivers
11/25/96-- Brazil's Atlantic Forests: New World Record for Tree Diversity
11/19/96-- Papua New Guinea Timber Violations, Landowners Want Shutdown
11/19/96-- Papua New Guinean Land Owner Eco-Forestry Project Does Well
11/13/96-- US, Canada & Brazil Thwart Global Forest Plan
11/10/96-- Papua New Guinea Update: Business as Usual, Ecoforestry & NGOs Provide Hope
11/7/96-- Malaysian Government Acknowledges Problems in Solomon Islands Forests
10/29/96-- U.S. Protests at Mitsubishi's Massive Raw Log Export Ship
10/28/96-- Maya Land on the Chopping Block in Belize
10/26/96-- Venezuelan Amazon Threatened by Resolution to Allow Mining and Logging
10/25/96-- Cambodia Vows to Halt Illegal Logging
10/25/96-- Europe and Tropical Timber: Proposals to Regulate the Tropical Timber Trade
10/24/96-- President Suharto of Indonesia and His Global Forestry Interests
10/23/96-- Finnish Company Joins Bid to Save Russian Forest
10/22/96-- International Protests Against Mitsubishi's Forest Conduct
10/22/96-- Alaska Environmental Concerns Reach a Crescendo
10/16/96-- Brazil's Indians on Alert as Government Hears Final Land Rights Appeal
10/16/96-- Genocide Against Brazilian Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples
10/14/96-- World Bank Gets Its Way on Forests, to the Benefit of Papua New Guinea
10/13/96-- 1995 ITTO Report on the Tropical Log Trade
10/10/96-- Papua New Guinea Government Declares Collingwood Bay Off Limits
10/5/96-- Papua New Guinea About Face; Forestry Act Changes Void, Victory!
10/2/96-- Help Halt Illegal Trade of Mahogany
10/1/96-- Fate of Maine, U.S., Forests Leads to Political Debate
9/29/96-- Brazil's Forests Burning
9/29/96-- U.S Reaches Agreement on Virgin Redwoods
9/26/96-- Vietnam Says Indochina's Forests Need Protection
9/24/96-- Death Warrant for Nigeria's Lowland Rainforests
9/22/96-- Brazil's Environment Chief Vows Tight Rein for Foreign Loggers
9/20/96-- Clinton Declares New National Monument, Limiting Land Development in Utah, U.S.
9/20/96-- German Chancellor Calls G-7 Amazon Actions "Pathetic"
9/18/96-- Asian Loggers Put Brazil on Alert Over Amazon
9/18/96-- World Bank to Resume Loans to Papua New Guinea, No Word on Forestry
9/18/96-- South Pacific Forestry & Cultural Abuses Continue
9/17/96-- Nearly 900 Arrested in U.S. Anti-Redwood Logging Protest
9/14/96-- 94 Percent of World's Forests Unprotected
9/12/96-- World Meeting to Decide Fate of ITTA Timber Pact
9/10/96-- Environmental Groups Re-emphasize World Forests Threatened
9/10/96-- U.S. Vice-President Al Gore Unveils Plan to Protect Alaskan Forest
9/10/96-- Timber Certification Best Hope for World's Forests
9/10/96-- Transnational Loggers Threaten Africa's Forests
9/8/96-- South Pacific Non-Governmental Organization Statement on Forestry
9/6/96-- Brazilian Land Decree Results in Indigenous Land Contestation, 1.6 million Hectares Threatened
9/3/96-- WWF Reports Asian Loggers Latest Threats to Brazil's Rainforest
9/3/96-- Ecotourism Growing in Ecuador
8/30/96-- Ivory Coast Acts to Curb Illegal Timber Felling
8/29/96-- World's Oldest Forest Ecosystem in Liquidation to Build Japan's Infrastructure
8/19/96-- Asian Logging Giants Extend Reach into Rainforests of World
8/12/96-- Bad Faith and Inappropriate Forest Policies in Papua New Guinea
8/12/96-- World Bank Withholds Loans Over Forestry Changes in Papua New Guinea
8/7/96-- Indonesia: 1,000,000 Hectare Mega-Project Planned for Peat Forests
8/7/96-- Swan Song for Canada's Ancient Forests
8/7/96-- More Scandal in the Extraction of Brazilian Mahogany
8/5/96-- Report Indicates Poor Farmers Could Destroy Half of Tropical Forests, (with Logging Threatening the Rest)
8/5/96-- One of Largest Timber Concessions in the World, Rimbunan Hijau's Wawoi-Guavi Timber in Papua New Guinea
8/1/96-- Cambodian Prime Minister Calls for Ceiling on Logging
7/30/96-- Brazil Bans Mahogany Logging in Amazon, Will U.S. Ban Mahogany Imports?
7/28/96-- Brazil Announces Moratorium on Mahogany Logging & Agricultural Deforestation Restrictions
7/25/96-- Brazil Justice Minister Delays Macuxi Land Demarcation, Over 1,500,000 Hectares
7/25/96-- Salvage Logging Report Finds US Forest Service Ignoring Environmental Laws
7/25/96-- German Parliament Members Press for Brazilian Indigenous Land Demarcation
7/25/96-- Papua New Guinea Forest Minister Grilled on Logging Permit for Malaysian Firm
7/24/96-- Oregon, U.S. Eco-Warriors Pursue Non-Violent Resistance to Save Forests
7/24/96-- Papua New Guinea's Forests Face Renewed Assault, Your Advocacy Needed!
7/22/96-- Papua New Guinea: Government vs Loggers, Landowners, Ecologists
7/21/96-- Legal Tussle Over Malaysia's Bakun Dam in Sarawak Rainforests Continues
7/21/96-- Possible Deal for Headwaters, California Redwoods Grove Protection
7/19/96-- Short Papua New Guinea Forest Crisis Update
7/15/96-- General Update on Papua New Guinea Rainforest Situation
7/11/96-- Timber Industry Refuses to Follow Papua New Guinea Law
7/10/96-- Nigerian Greens Fight Hong Kong Loggers
7/9/96-- Venezuela: Amazonian Indians Request Support
7/8/96-- NGOs Worldwide Oppose Bakun Dam in Malaysia
7/5/96-- East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, Ecotimber Project-- "We All Work Together"
6/27/96-- Mitsubishi Profits from Indian Woes in Canada
6/26/96-- U.S. Congress Defeats Measures to Slow Logging
6/25/96-- Greenpeace Activists Blockading Clayoquot Sound, Canada
6/25/96-- Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Gets Plan to Clearcut Collingwood Bay
6/22/96-- Tupinikim & Guarani Indian's Land Struggle in Brazil
6/22/96-- Ecuadorian Citizens Protest Texaco's Amazon Oil Pollution
6/19/96-- U.S. Court Rejects Timber Industry Claim on Bird Habitat
6/18/96-- Papua New Guinea's New National Forest Plan Proposes Only Modest Downstream Processing
6/18/96-- Giant Logging Company Criticizes Papua New Guinea Government
6/17/96-- World's Oldest Juniper Forest Threatened in Pakistan
5/31/96-- Brazil's New Indigenous Land Decree Takes Its Toll
5/29/96-- Papua New Guinea Agro-Forestry Projects Get Tougher Guidelines
5/27/96-- Lawsuit Against Freeport Mine in Indonesia Begins
5/25/96-- Ecuador's Last Remaining Coastal Rainforests to be Logged
5/23/96-- Brazilian Rainforest Update: Victory for Guarani-Kaiowa Indians & More
5/23/96-- Biggest Oil Development in N. America Threatens Canadian Boreal Forests
5/23/96-- Finnish Clearcutting of Indigenous Lands, Reindeer Herding Grounds of the Sami
5/21/96-- Timber Feeding Frenzy in Guyana, South America
5/96-- Brazilian Guarani-Kaiowa Indigenous Community Given Eviction Notice
5/96-- Brazil's Indigenous Land Grab Continues, Update on Decree #1775
5/96-- Hollywood Superstars Denounce B.C., Canada, Clearcuts
5/96-- United States' Endangered Species Program Revived
5/96-- Chilean Court Halts U.S. Company's Forestry Project
5/96-- Sarawak, Malaysia-- Earth's Oldest Rainforest Being Decimated
5/96-- The Timber Trade and Global Forest Loss
5/96-- Papua New Guinea Prime Minister's Visit to Malaysia Condemned
5/96-- Oakland USA Passes Resolution Opposing Clearcut Rainforest Paper
4/96-- Papua New Guinea Government to Implement New Forest Revenue Structure
4/96-- Eco-Exchange Update on Central American Tropical Conservation
4/96-- Japan's Tropical Timber Imports for 1988-1995
4/96-- Fight to Save Amazon's Animal Species
4/96-- Victory for US Timber Interests, More Widespread Northwest Logging
4/96-- Papua New Guinea's Disastrous Forestry Policy, Controversy Flares Over New Timber Revenue System
4/96-- Chilean Native Forests Dwindle
4/96-- Groups Unite to Save Chicago Wilderness
4/96-- Brazil: Land Contestation Affects over 35% of Demarcated Lands
4/96-- US Government Plans to Make 1997 "Banner Year" for Environment
4/96-- Papua New Guinean Environmental Vandalism
4/96-- Destruction and Violence in the Ecuadorian Oriente
4/96-- Brazil: Indian Lands Threatened, Deforestation More Likely
4/96-- Thai Loggers Cut Wood Despite Ban
4/96-- Australian Activists Greet Malaysian Prime Minister
4/96-- Africa's Last Intact Belt of Rainforest Threatened
4/96-- China Suspends Logging of Primeval Forests
3/96-- Japan's 1994 Imports of Tropical Timber, Papua New Guinea Continues Increase
3/96-- Using Informational Technologies for Forest Advocacy
3/96-- U.S. Senate Defeats Efforts to Repeal Salvage Logging Law
3/96-- Guyana's Logging Freeze in Question
3/96-- Malaysian Government Offers Aid to Solomons Logging Industry
3/96-- U.S. Senate Defeats Efforts to Repeal Salvage Logging Law
3/96-- Brazil's "Genocide Decree" Attacks Indian Rights
3/96-- Electrical Power Grid to put a "Hole in the Heart of Daintree"
3/96-- Indonesia Tells Forest Body to Reject Timber Bans
2/96-- Proposal to Build Haiti's Economy with Tree Planting
2/96-- More is Better for the World's Species
2/96-- United States Vanishing Forests
2/96-- Irian Jaya-Indonesia: Logging Threat Looms Over Birds' Paradise
2/96-- Brazilian Government Reneges on Indigenous Rights
2/96-- Suriname, Logging Concessions Move Forward
2/96-- More on Solomon Islands Situation
2/96-- Environmentalists Rate U.S. Congress Worst Ever
2/96-- Sudan's War Threatens Zaire Wildlife with Extinction
2/96-- Solomon Islands Still Depends on Forests for Trade
2/96-- World Bank to Address Brazilian Rainforest & Indigenous Issues
2/96-- Clearcutting Causes Landslides in Clayoquot Sound
2/96-- Solomon Islands Response to Australian Forest Aid Cut-Off
2/96-- No Dialogue by Brazilian Government Concerning Decree
2/96-- Mitsubishi Boycott Builds with Haiku Project
2/96-- Siberian Tiger/Forests Report
2/96-- Protection of Uru-eu-wau-wau Territory in Brazilian Amazon
2/96-- Loggers Move Into Indigenous Lands in Indonesia Again
2/96-- Asian Farmers Struggle Against Transnationals
1/96-- Solomon Islands--Forest Crisis Documented by Australian Radio
1/96-- Eastern Europe Forest Report
1/96-- Central American Rainforest Updates
1/96-- Eco-Murders: Enemies of the State
1/96-- Paper and Timber Waste Cause Forest Destruction
1/96-- Brazil Weakens Protection of Indian Lands
1/96-- Australia Cancels Solomon Islands Forest Aid

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